/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.14940616]

Which board offers more intelligent people?

/lit/ or /sci/?

[Anonymous No.14940624]

>>14940616
/lit/ but you have swathes of pseud poseurs to filter

[Anonymous No.14940627]

Sci is full of lazy people, not one actually discusses anything at the forefront of a field. Lit is therefore better

[Anonymous No.14940628]

>>14940616

[Anonymous No.14940635]

>4channel
>intelligent people

[Anonymous No.14940648]

Whichever board your not in /thread

[Anonymous No.14940649]

/his/ is clearly the smartest board

[Anonymous No.14940668]

>>14940616
Unironically /fit/

[Anonymous No.14940936]

>>14940624
/lit/ is so aggressive that i cannot help but think that 99% of it is angsty pseud teens convinced about their self-importance and faux-intellectualism

[Anonymous No.14941012]

/sci/ is full of b8 so it's difficult to judge true intelligence, but I'd imagine it's /lit/ out of the two

[Anonymous No.14941023]

>>14940616
Science is food for midwits

[Anonymous No.14941038]

>>14940616
i can see her bra

[Anonymous No.14941049]

>>14940635
Compared to everywhere else on the internet, yeah. Reddit, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Tumblr, discord– all less intelligent at their heights.

[Anonymous No.14941157]

/sci/ is mostly:

>insecure undergrads trying to prove they took the 'best' major (avg IQ, salary, whatever)
>race realists/evo psych freaks
>laymen with an interest in pop science

similarly to how the average /lit/ user is more infatuated with the idea of being a reader than actually reading (has possibly read a few entry-level /lit/core pieces), high-quality posters don't tend to come to 4chan

[Anonymous No.14941182]

>>14941157
is it all just narcassism anon?

[Anonymous No.14941210]

>>14940616
unironically? /lit/

[Anonymous No.14941217]

>>14940616
most scientists are midwits

[Anonymous No.14941228]

/sci/ is smarter than a 10'th grader.
Is /lit/?

It's not B.

[Anonymous No.14941230]

>>14940616
Boards by average IQ:
/his/ - 150
/s/ - 130
/fit/ /tv/ /x/ /biz/ - 120
/mu/ - 110
/lit/ /ck/ /int/ /sci/ - 100
The rest are double digit.

[Anonymous No.14941231]

>>14940616
On average, /sci/. The extremes? /lit/

[Anonymous No.14941235]

>>14941228
the center lol get fucked bug

[Anonymous No.14941251]

>>14941230
This is a meme.
>>14941217
Most people, by definition, are midwits. And most of /sci/ is not scientists, so not sure how your post is relevant to what OP is asking.
>>14940635
I think I agree with this anon. While clearly both boards have a handful of people who are passionate, curious and knowledgeable about things they discuss, most of the posters in both boards are baitposters, trollposters, unironic retards and schizophrenics, pseuds caring only about the idea of being a mathfag/reader rather than actual math/books, /pol/fags, religiousfags who constantly try to derail every thread, obnoxious racists.
On average I'd say /sci/ has a little bit more people who are actually curious and like to study (you see them on /mg/ and /sqt/) but that doesn't necessarily mean it's more intelligent, just that the discussions are just a little bit higher quality.
How to improve both boards:
-Better moderation. Ball all the low-quality posters as well as all the schizos, stormfags and trolls.

[Anonymous No.14941259]

>>14941235
It's not the center (the center isn't even on the surface of the box)

[Anonymous No.14941260]

I like /lit/, it's always the best board, but alot of the most interesting philosophical threads get deleted by jannies for being off topic. is there some community with a similar culture but less intolorant of anything not strictly book related

[Anonymous No.14941313]

>>14941259
exactly, that's why it would take longer as the bug is constructed to the surface but yearns to dig for his food

[Anonymous No.14941316]

>>14941313
>constructed
Constricted

[Anonymous No.14941318]

>>14941228
We've fucking had this thread before and it was a disaster. The point is on the top plane, I think it was a quarter from each side, diagonally across from b.

[Anonymous No.14941323]

>>14941251
>ban all the schizos
Over my dead body! They're the best part of this website. And if they don't belong here, who will take them in? Don't lump our schizos in with those other trolls, they're the source of all that is most holy on this board.

[Anonymous No.14941335]

Try to actually discuss topology in /sci/, no one will know what the fuck you are talking about.

They are obsessed with 'simple problems' like HURRRR CAN YOU DEFINE blahblah IN THE REALS

DURRRR DOES INFINITY REALLY EQUAL -1/12????

Stupid borderline retarded shit gets asked over and over again.

Just read mathematical literature, and post here occasionally and discuss it with me or someone who reads mathematics. :3

[Anonymous No.14941342]

>>14941251
Go back to r*ddit if you don't like shizos, racists and trolls.

[Anonymous No.14941345]

>>14940616
>/lit/ or x?
x

[Anonymous No.14941355]

>>14941335
>Try to actually discuss topology in /sci/,
What happened?
I'd love to discuss topology with you!

[Anonymous No.14941367]

>>14940616
I'd say /sci/. Most people on /lit/ don't even read anything and use this as a board to shitpost about ideas they've vaguely heard about. On /sci/ you at least have some people that have studied their field and can do mathematics, physics, etc. This board is more obsessed with appearing intelligent than actually possessing any quantifiable intelligence. I have discussed books more outside of /lit/ than in /lit/ itself. Just open up the catalog, it will have pictures of some 40 year old cow ( Butterfly ), Guenon garbage and just shitposting that hasn't even got anything to do with books.

[Anonymous No.14941383]

>>14940616
The one without you

[Anonymous No.14941449]

Both are worse.

[Anonymous No.14941451]

>>14940616
/lit/

[Anonymous No.14941454]

>>14940616
I'd have to say /lit/, although that may be more informed by experiences in life then on the boards. People in /sci/ related fields, other than mathematicians in general and some outliers in other fields, are often hopelessly incapable of entertaining realities other than their own. You pull an engineer off the street and they will be incapable of discussing anything artistic, aesthetic, philosophical, etc.; if not outrightly dismissive and scornful.

In college I double majored in Math (BS) and Art (BFA), and took a fair amount of compsci classes The art students - painters, creative writers, sculptors, and so on - where always interested in hearing about pure mathemtics, even though they did not have much of a framework for placing the ideas, beyond an appreciation for the characteristic of math to complement the physical world. Math students, and especially the professors, held a high appreciation for aesthetic topics, but the gross majority of compsci or engineering or physics kids just had nothing to say at all about anything other than their field. Really kind of sad.

/sci/ is where you find the real psueds, hiding behind the guise of rationalism or w/e. It takes some degree of intellect to be a /lit/ pseud, unless you just read YA fiction.

>>14941335
I think you might be bringing topology up in the wrong threads then. There are plenty of knowledgeable people on /sci/, espcially where math is concerned.

FWIW I've found there to be more rigor with regards to computer science and related topics on /g/ then /sci/, you just have to avoid the headphone threads and "which distro" threads.

[Anonymous No.14941472]

>>14940616
Although the real intelligent posters are on letsrundotcom.

[Anonymous No.14941485]

>>14940936
For many people it is simply fun to shitpost as an angsty and aggressive pseud teen. Doesnt help the board quality as well.

[Anonymous No.14941493]

>>14940616
The highest IQ board is /asp/

[Anonymous No.14941495]

>>14940616

[Anonymous No.14941502]

>>14940616
Never been but I'd put my money on /sci/. /lit/ is full of pseuds.

[Anonymous No.14941525]

>>14940616
Unironically /lit/
/sci/ is full of math autists and 20yo boomers

[Anonymous No.14941544]

>>14940616
/lit/ in general but if you need tech support then /sci/

[Anonymous No.14941551]

>>14941316
>taskes

[Anonymous No.14941584]

>>14940616
I don't know about /sci/ but just the other day there was an astronomy thread here and there are also constant threads about religion, charlatans like Guenon or midwits like Jordan Peterson. If /sci/ doesn't have any of this shit then they are probably smarter by default.

[Anonymous No.14941591]

>>14941584
*astrology

[Anonymous No.14941616]

>>14941230
I go on /his/ and /biz/ just as much as I go on /lit/ and this is bullshit. /Biz/ is very retarded although slightly more financial literate than any other board. /His/ is just /Pol/ with dates.

[Anonymous No.14941662]

>>14941454
Mathematics requires at least a grasp on semantics, whereas engies and the like are happy just to slap a formula on a problem in a narrow field and call it a day. Understanding is left outside in the cold

[Anonymous No.14941670]

>>14941591
Seems you're the midwit. Astrology is a much harder subject than astronomy tbqh.

[Anonymous No.14941713]

>>14941230
>/mu/ - 110
Fucking lmao

[Anonymous No.14941960]

>>14941493
not since /esg/ went down

[Anonymous No.14941972]

/sp/ by far

[Anonymous No.14941981]

it's neck and neck. we just have pseuds where they have scchizoposters

[Anonymous No.14941983]

>>14940936
fuck off faggot

[Anonymous No.14942018]

>>14941472
Bro, letsrun used to be my 4chan when I was still running competitively around ages 14-20. So many classic threads. What are your PRs?

[Anonymous No.14942041]

sci is full bazinga tier posters now

[Anonymous No.14942050]

>>14942018
4:38 for the (full) mile
51 in the 400
Never ran XC (fall and summer rowing)

[Anonymous No.14942110]

~115 Tier
>/g/
>/sci/
>/his/
>/lit/
>/mu/
~110 Tier
>/a/ and related
>/v/ and related
>/co/
>/tv/
>/k/
>/an/
>/tg/
>/ck/
>/diy/
>/biz/
>/trv/
>/fit/
>/out/
>/x/
~105 Tier
>/sp/
>/asp/
>/int/
>/fa/
>/lgbt/
>/s/
>/e/
~100 Tier
>/pol/
>/hc/
>/hm/
>/h/
>/u/
>/y/
>/b/

[Anonymous No.14942144]

>>14940616
/tv/ is unironically the highest IQ board

[Anonymous No.14942307]

/k/

[Anonymous No.14942534]

>>14941230
Because I go debate and beat every little shit on /his/

[Anonymous No.14942565]

>>14942144
>tfw Baneposter at /tv/

[Anonymous No.14942790]

>>14941230
based and /his/pilled